UML’s high-level team leaving for China at the invitation of CPC

A high-level delegation of the CPN-UML is visiting China at the invitation of Communist Party of China (CPC).

A team led by UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel will head towards Beijing, the Capital of China, via Guangzhou next week.

The delegation led by General Secretary Pokharel, who has already become the Chief Minister of Lumbini Province, will stay in the northern neighbor for two weeks.

According to a source, the UML leaders will leave for Beijing on Sunday.

A UML leader said that the General Secretary Pokharel-led team will hold a meeting with senior leaders of the Communist Party of China.

The Foreign Department of the Communist Party of China had invited the UML delegation to visit China.

“A high-level team led by the General Secretary is leaving for China at the invitation of Communist Party of China,” the UML leader said.

The Communist Party of China has also invited a high-level delegation of the UML to visit China at a time when preparations are being made for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit.

A team led by CPN (Maoist Center) Vice-Chairman Agni Sapkota had also visited China on May 19.

On August 10, CPN (Maoist Center) General Secretary Dev Gurung left for China.  Gurung, who had left for the northern neighbor to make preparations for Prime Minister Dahal’s China visit, has already returned home.

On August 16, a team led by Major General Yue Ande, the Tibet Military Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army came to Nepal.